Phonograph.



S. J. HOEXTER.

PHONOGRAPH.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 2:. ms.

1,269,536. Patontvd .1 unv 11, 1918.

SAMUEL J. HOEXTER, OF KALAMAZOO, MICHIGAN.

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To all whom it may conceam:

Be it l'mown that I, SAMUEL J. Honx'rnn, a citizen of the United States, residing at Kalamazoo, county of Kalamazoo, and State of Michigan, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Phonographs, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates in general to phonograph construction for disk machines and has for its object to provide a more convenient construction of the phonograph housing and the mounting of the operatingparts. The improvement resides essentially in the arrangement of a record support and reproducer arm so as to be movable in unison into and out of the main housing in a horizontal plane, while retaining the proper connection'of the driving mechanism with the record support. To this end, the record support and reproducer arm are for example pivoted upon a vertical axis which is parallel with the turn table axis but outside of the periphery of the turn table, the relation of the reproducer and the record therefore remaining unchanged throughout this movement from one position to the other. In this way the record receiving part is made accessible without having to raise the housing top or cover. The driving gear is connected from the turn table axis to the axis of the record support and reproducer arm through any suitable elements so that the relation of the power shaft to the driven part remains constant. The principle of the invention may be carried out in a multiple form so that a plurality of reproducing outfits are associated within a single main housing, to permit the successive or simultaneous reproduction of a plurality of associated selections as for example in the case of operatic music exceeding the capacity of the single record, or in combining two or more reproductions simultaneously.

The invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawings in which- Figure 1 is a perspective view of a simple embodiment of the invention with the reproducing elements exposed for access,

Fig. 2 is a similar view showing an ex- Specification of Letters Iatent.

, Application filed June 21, 1916. Serial No. 104,950.

Patented June 11, 1918.

ample of the driving gear and the-amplifier cent the doors 12 of usual construction. A

supporting platform 13 for the turn table or record support 14 is pivoted in the main housing upon an axis concentric with the tube 15 upon which the reproducer arm 16 is pivotally mounted. The reproducer arm 16 carries a reproducer' head 17 which may be of any approved construction and which may be provided with a needle 19 to trace the record groove formed in the disk record mounted on the turn table 14. The turn table shaft 20 has fixed upon it a sprocket wheel 21 engaged by a chain 22 which is driven by a sprocket wheel 23 to which the motive power in any approved form is applied. The axis of sprocket wheelv 23 coincides with the center of tube 15 and is common to both the sprocket wheel 23 and the turn table support '13 so that a fixed relation between the driving and the driven parts is always maintained. The turn table 14 may be engaged and arrested by any ordinary form of brake such as shown at 24:, this brake being carried by the turn table support 13 and having its operating lever projecting through a wall section 25 which is fixed to the turn table support 13 and completes the inclosure of the housing of the reproducing chamber when closed.

Fig. 4 illustrates the same principle applied to a difi'erent style of cabinet 26. In this example the turn table support 27 has mounted upon it as before the turn table 28 whose shaft 29 is assumed to be driven in the manner already illustrated. The support 27 is pivoted upon an axis which is concentric with the tubular support of the reproducer arm 30 as already shown in Fig. 2.

The invention'in its broad aspect comarises any amangement by M recsrrl support am rspreducer arm may be in Withdrawn from the main heusinii, mcvsment is preferably @ffastefi m acme/1 plane.

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